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dogged

[daw-gid, dog-id] / ˈdɔ gɪd, ˈdɒg ɪd /


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Dogged management will also be essential to break bureaucratic inertia and turf wars among the services.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

Dogged US efforts to prevent the crisis from escalating, involving presidential visits, countless diplomatic missions and the deployment of vast military resources, have all come to nothing.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024

Dogged by debt, over-optimistic financial forecasting, leadership turnover and overreliance on a small group of funders, the museum patched holes by creating new ones.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2024

Dogged by corruption accusations, a fracturing coalition and the global financial crisis, Mr. Berlusconi resigned in 2011.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Dogged and imperious, with a handlebar mustache that seemed to bend his smile into a perpetual scowl, Bateson was unmoved by equations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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